[Mudboy Slim]

"I would rid the USA of the progressive income tax, bust non utility monopolies, and return to tariffs/sales taxes, give labor more collective bargaining rights and then after a while fine tune the system."

There you go, that's more like it...but I prefer less collective bargaining and more pay fer performance...MUD

[jpsb]

Unions are a neccessary evil, collective barganing is goodness, but someone needs to figure out how to do a union so that it works for the workers/company and not just the union bosses. Somewhere there is a Nobel prise in this whole collective barganing/union mess if some high IQ person could figure it all out.